OpenKnowledgeMeetup

Description

We believe knowledge can empower everyone, enabling people to work together

to tackle local and global challenges, understand our world, expose
inefficiency and challenge inequality and hold governments to account.
We believe in diversity: epistemic, geographic, socio-demographic, of
language and gender.

WHO ARE WE:
The Open Knowledge Foundation is a worldwide network of people passionate
about openness, using advocacy, technology and training to unlock
information and enable people to work with it to create and share knowledge.
We believe knowledge can empower everyone, enabling people to work together
to tackle local and global challenges, understand our world, expose
inefficiency and challenge inequality and hold governments to account.
We believe in diversity: epistemic, geographic, socio-demographic, of
language and gender.

WHAT DO WE DO:
At the Open Knowledge Foundation we do awesome stuff with open data and
open knowledge. We run data expeditions all around the world, support the
work of transparency activists from Uruguay to India (and yes, Germany
too), push governments to open up (in a machine readable fashion please)
and be accountable, track countries' spending movements, run a praised
curated review of awesome public domain (art)works and more. And what's
awesome about this? We do it together with a huge worldwide community and
everyone can join!

And even more than this: we run a huge festival every second year, next
time happening in 2014 in Berlin – the Open Knowledge Festival (July 15-18,
save the date!). 4 days of participatory and hands-on sessions, hacks,
installations and parties, owned by all the open communities and projects
which will shape its agenda. Keywords: inclusivity, diversity, community,
action.

WHY YOU MIGHT WANT TO JOIN THIS MEETUP @ #30C3
You want:
- know more about the Open Knowledge Foundation & projects you'd like to
join
- get your hands on data and knowledge still to be opened up
- hold your national or local governance to account
- challenge inequality
- co-create the goals at the root of the Open Knowledge Festival, the event
from and for the global open communities.

So if you're into open, community powered amazingness, inclusivity and
great gatherings (well, you're at 30C3, you're likely to be into those) –
JOIN US!